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2015-02-23 08:49:45

I've had a few new item ideas floating around in my head for a while, so I thought I'd finally write them up. I'm not completely certain on what the actual item would be for all of them, and how it would tie into the effect, but I'll be updating as I do research and come up with links between items and their effects.

I'll also be updating when I come up with more ideas. Feedback totally welcome!

Umber Gnawrock - Event Item - 1 use

Gives a higher chance of passing the coat of the lion this item was fed to.

Umber is a natural brown or reddish-brown earth pigment. The name is based on the Ochre item already in-game. However, unlike the Ochre item, this would only give a boosted percentage of a base passing, rather than a guarantee to help keep hard-to-pass bases more rare.

My suggested boost formula is 1 1/2 to 2 times greater than the normal pass rate, though it's really up to staff to decide specifics.


Adult Sex Changer - Oasis (5 GB?) - 1 use

This item will allow you to sex change an adult as long as it has never been hunted, bred, or patrolled. Not eligible for use on lions without heritage.(Possible age limit of 3-5 years?)

I don't see this item being extremely widely used, but I doubt I'm the only person that's ever forgotten to sex-change a cub. That being said, measures are there to prevent possible abuse for stats. I'm not sure if something like this can be coded, however, so I understand if this idea isn't possible to safely implement.



Cotton Root Bark - Oasis (1 GB) - 1 use

This herb is eaten by lionesses when they don't wish to have their cubs, and induces a miscarriage.

This item will allow you to induce a miscarriage to your lioness if she was bred to the wrong male, she is able to be bred again in 1-3 days. Additionally, this lioness will have a slightly increased chance of producing a mutation (stacks with fertility percentage, but less effective than lion meat), and a heightened chance of this mutation being lethal.



War Paint (Various Colors) - Event - 1/ 5 use (?)

This colorful paint has boosted your lion's confidence, and given him a 5%/10% (?) boost in stat when battling!

This colorful paint has boosted your lionesses confidence, and she will be more likely to do well in hunts!

Various colors would represent the stat the lion got the boost in, or just a variation for females.

For males, this would only affect battles in explore, and have no effect in PvP. Still developing this idea to prevent it being too overpowered/advantageous. I'm thinking either reduced EXP gain/time limit on use (1 week/month?), or both. This would primarily only have use for people with lower-levelled lionesses and rolled lions. Only one decor of this nature can be used at a time (including the animal companion decor, either one or the other)

It would be possible to 'disable' the effect of the decor, and just use the appearance, if so wished by the user, and in that case, the decor would last on the lion as long as it's not removed.

I've been contemplating decor that has an actual effect on the lion for a long while, and this is one of the few ideas that I like, so far. Needs balancing, however.

Animal Companion - Event - 1 use (?)(Suggested by SnowyCat (#40791) )

This affectionate young animal seems to have taken a liking to your lion! It will help out in battles by teaching your lion their strengths!

This is essentially a different version of the warpaint item, albeit a little less realistic. Different animals represent different stats, cheetah - speed, AWD - agility, etc. For balancing purposes, it would either be a tiny boost, or the animal will grow up and leave your lion, effectively giving it a time limit; a small EXP gain decrease is definitely something to consider, as well. This decor wouldn't be able to be unequipped until the time limit runs out (if it has one), and only one companion decor of this nature would be able to be used once at a time.

This item would also have the option of having its effect disabled, and simply used as a decor (Or an alternate version of this with 5-10 uses that's simply a decor? c: )

Daphne - Event (?) - 5 use

This plant smells funny... it's berries are deadly! Rolling in it's flowers deters pesky females! Lasts time - HYENA BUTTER IS IN - XY

Name is based on a poisonous flower found in North Africa, a bit of a polar opposite to the Leopard Orchid!

Daphne makes it less likely to run into NCLs in explore. This would mainly be advantageous for collecting event currency, hence I feel it should be less common if implemented. Looking into curse-type objects to use as an item, suggestions welcome!



Elephant Poop - Event (?) - 5 use

Yay, poop! The smell is not only nice, but rolling it will also mask your predatory scent, making it less likely for you to be confronted in explore! Lasts time

Based on the fact that elephant poop is like catnip to lions, however, they also may roll on it before hunts to avoid scaring off their prey with their smell c:

Similar to Daphne in function.


Falcon's eye / Third eye - Oasis (5 GB (?)) - 1 use

This item gives your male the eyes of a falcon / a special sense for time, allowing him to detect an adult mutation on a cub.

This item would simply let you see what cubs have adult mutations, but not which mutation they have!



To be decided - Event - 1 use - LION SCROTUM IS IN - XY

Eugh... this lion feels slightly unwell after eating this herb...

Gives a mutated lion a chance (?%) to pass on its mutation to a cub. However, a male lion may get a female adult mutation, and vice versa, so beware! c:



Glossy Starling Feather - Event - 1 use

A feather from this gorgeous bird will help your lion impress!

Another decor-is-useful idea. The feather would give a slight boost in impression gain while equipped and would last time


Marking Color Picker - Oasis / Monkey Shop (2 GB / 1.8k SB) - 1 use

Allows you to change the color of one oasis making on a lion.

Pretty simple, marking color changer for oasis markings to preserve slot rarity of special/event markings ^^ Possible alternate version for events that could affect other marking types?

- Incredibly hard to code it right now as markings are not related to each other at this stage of the game - Xy



Shiny Precious (open to name suggestions) - Event

Ooooh, shiny! This thing.... you don't know what it is, but something about it makes you really reluctant to let it out of your sight. Others seem to take interest in it, too... keep the precious safe!

This item would increase enemy encounter rate in explore by x % for y duration.



This suggestion has 232 supports and 0 NO supports.



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Edited on 09/06/16 @ 09:41:35 by Xylax (#4)

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2015-02-23 09:34:16

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Posted on
2015-02-23 11:11:31
i was thinking...

Mutation Addition

-Lets you change the lion's mutation (or even add) just once. If you already used this item on the same lion you're trying to use it, you wont be able to do so. This item can only be used once per lion.



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2015-02-23 11:18:07
That's been suggested before in another post c:

Personally, I don't support the idea of something like this due to mutations having different rarities, with achromia and floppy ears being common, and adult mutations like overgrown claws and teeth being rather rare. Similar thing with addition, really. Mutations might not serve a role in the game, but they're still a prestigious thing that a person puts effort into getting, it shouldn't be the simple course of simply buying an item, in my opinion ^^



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It's a Paradox (#40791)

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2015-02-23 19:53:15
I'd support Hey's idea if you had to remove the mutation from another lion/ess first and only then are you able to apply it to another lion/ess. You would be able to buy the "empty" version of the item from an event and once it was used on a lioness that had a mutation and removed it, it would become "full" and able to be used on another. After having become "empty" the second time, it would disappear from the hoard, making for a one time use. It could also have other boundries (such as the "full" items couldn't be sold or a lion/ess has to be at least 2 years old before it is able to be used on them even if their mutation appeared before that) to prevent it from becoming to over-powered. Of course, I can imagine this idea being very hard to code and I doubt this would appear in the near, future if at all, but this item would be very useful to players who have an NCL base and/or marked lioness and would rather transfer it to a lioness they would better appreciate it on.
EDIT:
I also just now thought of another way this item could be abused and that would be removing an old lioness's mutation. To prevent users from removing a mutation from a lioness who will die soon, there could maybe be another age limit as to when you can remove the mutation (maybe when they hit 9.11 years, the lioness could no longer have her mutation removed?). Though, I see no problem with adding a mutation to an old lioness, it would be very upsetting to a player who miss-clicked on a lion and added a mutation to them but could no longer get it back due to it's age.
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Also, for the first "to be decided" item in this list that involves NCLs, could perhaps be called
"Cursed Flower" or something such as that which is sort of based off the "Leopard Orchid" item that allows the instant claiming of a lioness.

I also think that the last "to be decided" event item, involving the increased chance of a lioness passing her mutation, should also have a male version so that players can also capture a male specific mutation to another male cub. There would be a notification on the male's page, similar to other items such as a GMO cow, and would only be good for one breeding.

(Please let me know if anything confuses you. It's fairly late so my wording isn't the best right now)

EDIT:
As another decor suggestion, there could maybe be an animal based decor (like a hyena or another lion) to help aid your lion in battle/ your lioness on a hunting trip, similar to your "War Paint" idea but the decor would appear as an adult animal on your lion's image. To make this more balanced, these could either run out after a certain amount of rollovers/gameplay time (which would remove the animal as if it left and is no longer helping you) and/or have only a slight boost of stats. These could also possibly come in different variations and boost a specific stat with a corresponding animal "helper" (such as a cheetah for speed, a rhino for strength, a zebra for stamina, etc). The decor should also not be listed in your lion's equipped decor list, making it irremovable. When equipped, a notification will appear at the top of the lion's page stating which stat is being boosted in battle. Having this equipped would cause no stat boost to cubs and only be useful in battle/on hunts.



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Edited on 24/02/15 by SnowyCat (#40791)

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Posted on
2015-02-23 20:06:10
Hmmm.., that actually sounds interesting, I'll type that up once I get to my laptop! ^^

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Oh yeah, good point ^^ I'll probably just alter the wording for that item so it works on both males and females, no real reason to have it be different items, really, just to avoid confusion. I appreciate the feedback! I also appreciate the name suggestion~



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Edited on 24/02/15 by Maulise | Flirty Floof (#32469)

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2015-02-23 22:04:21
Came up with names for all but one item, and added SnowyCat's suggestions with a few tweaks ^^



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2015-02-24 00:24:05
Just two comments. :3

The adult sex changer should not be eligible for use on the weekly special lioness.

And I do not support the mutation transfer. Stats and markings are what make a mutation more valuable. For example, I bred a quad feline with overgrown teeth. Now all someone needs to do is nab a quad feline and drop the mutation on.



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2015-02-24 00:27:32
Torquil: Nice catch on the special lioness, I totally forgot about that, it could be massively exploited!

Yeah, I'm really on-the-fence about the idea. It's nice, in theory, but thinking about it, it could be exploited and ruin the value of things rather easily. I'll probably remove that, just because it has so many 'ifs' to it, regardless.



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2015-02-24 05:23:10
I support all of these but am on the fence about the mutation being carried on; however, if it were a REALLY small percentage, I'd be down. :)

Neat ideas though! <3



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2015-02-24 05:37:04
Camo: if implimented, it's likely to be an event item, so there wouldn't be ready access to the item. That being said, the item probably wouldn't be more effective than lion meat, I wouldn't think. It'd be up to staff to decide percentage, though.



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2015-02-24 06:10:02
With the adult sex changer, maybe it could only be used on lionesses with a heritage.

E.g. Instead of customising my main male, I could make a Custom Lioness and sex change her, then let her take over. This would save me 5 GB on the base price, and the trouble of breeding an heir.

This would also love the Special Lioness problem. NCLs won't be eligible then, but not many chased girls would make a suitable sub/heir.



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2015-02-24 06:13:48
Renarai: Thank you for the suggestion, that likely solves the coding problem the 'no special lioness rule would've cause coding-wise. Will edit that in once I get back to my laptop~



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2015-02-24 11:30:17
I really like your ideas especially the mutation ones.^^



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2015-02-25 10:49:56
I was totally going to suggest this (Glad you have suggested it though :D ) --->

Marking Color Picker - Oasis / Monkey Shop (2 GB / 1.8k SB) - 1 use

Allows you to change the color of one oasis making on a lion.

Pretty simple, marking color changer for oasis markings to preserve slot rarity of special/event markings ^^ Possible alternate version for events that could affect other marking types?



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Posted on
2015-02-27 03:45:21
Support, many of these would be great GB/SB dumps XD

And are over all very creative.

Appreciate the detail you put into these :) Support.



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